Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-02-05
Invented Occupations.

OCCupslslOmSs
From Harpers Bazaar.
The are number Of emplOyments awaiting
those who are wise enough to devise them, and
not TOO proud to fill them, which, the moment
they are named, strike every one with wonder
that they have not been in use before and which
are perfectly suitable for young women who have
filled stations In society which unfit them for
much rude or rough work. Take for instance, the
baking OF fine cake. Some dozen years ago
young lady returning from Europe found herself
on her native shores almost destitute, nearly all
her property having suddenly been lost. An ac-
cldent caused one OF her friends to learn that she
knew how to make delicious cake OF a sort hith-
erto untasted over here. The friend, seized with
an idea, took portion or the cake to another
friend the other friend. about to give an enter
ta1nment, desired the novelty; presently every
body else desired 1t, and willing to pay for it,
and keeping her recipe to herself, she soon found
business that grew so as to make not only COM
Portable income, but property.
Another course that we have heard OF is that of
young lady with a sort OF genius for costume,
millinery and general paraphernalia. While
wealthy herself she could indulge her taste, and
when in reduced ACCOMPLISHMENTS was more cross
to her that she could not indulge this taste OF de-
vislng and designing and seeing results than that
herself. The pleasure of suggesting combinations
and outlines to various of her old friends who had
not deserted her made her see that it was possible
to turn her talent TO account. Now many ladies'
who do not wish to be merely came replicaS of
fashion plates, but while adapting their material
In the main TO the demands of fashion, so that
they shall not seem at all out OF style prefer to
maintain an individuality through it all that shall
bring out their own good points and subdue their
bad OneS-gO 10 her for the sketch Of dress suit
able to their shape and manner, according to her
ideas, harmonizing or contrasting, but never max
Ing dscord with their personal pecuiarities, and
she has found the work paying as well as pro-
feSSOn.
Everybody knows of the lady who made some
dolls shoes for fair, which shoes sold SO well as
to let 1t seem worth her while to make others and
put them On sale for her own profit, and doing so
she met long untitled want, and rapidly became
the greater part of all the dolls shoes made in
the country. But few people perhaps have heard
self, and seeing the market full OF poorly paid
music and painting Teachers and the shops full of
unstable water cOlOrs, bethought herself of one
accomplishment that had always brought her in
applause She secured, with hardly any difficulty
at all, several classes in whist playing and every
nay met od ner a1 at the appointed
than she could do justice to, whist playing, in
Guiding both mnelnonicS and mathematics TO a
degree that demands continuous study and in
Struct1On on the part OF those who would perfect
themselves in its art.
Still another occupation suggested itself to a
young person by the fact that often when the
lamps OF a house were trimmed by the maid they
smoked or otherwise misbehaved, but when one OF
the ladies OF the house attended to them their
flame was clear and bright. and still more by the
fact that often their care was the last part OF the
days work, and then the late trimming endan-
gered the house. Since lamps have become fash
tOnable and so often replace gas with their steady
light, the matter OF their trimming has acquired
some weight; and thinking the matter over, our
young person decided to offer her services in the
sole matter OF lamp trimming, and now, armed
with her implements, she goes from house to house
cleaning and filling the lamps, straining the old
Oil and setting it aside for furniture polish when
too thick Tor burning well, attending TO wicks,
rubbing up burners and cleaning chimneys, leav-
Ing everything about them in desirable trim for
the night, and then going on to The next willing
to do the work with scientific neatness for the
sake OF a small weekly stipend in view Of the
number OF Sttpends, so many hOusekeepers having
shown themselves delighted to have lamps thai
burn like those of the wise virgins and to lie nd of
all the SOiling and maiOdOrouS work.